I've been experiencing the following problem in Gnome desktop on the SunRay:
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information.
Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
Details tab shows:
Adding client to server's list failed,
CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
Usually it happends 30 days after the user session startup.
Restart of the
gconfd process did help:
$ ps -ef | grep gconfd
12428 1 0 Apr 12 pts/21 27:56 /usr/lib/gconfd-2 15
54658 1 0 Apr 13 ? 27:10 /usr/lib/gconfd-2 26
$ kill 12428 54658
After the
kill(1) command, the desktop starts necessary
gconfd processes on-demand, and applications continue to work.